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What age idid your babies start sleeping through the nite?

What was the age of your babies when they started slleeping through the nite?
my daughter is 13 weeks old and last week slept through the nite twice but has not done it since.Do you think she will consistantly start sleeping through the nite soon?
Has anyone elses babies done this?

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2. My 2nd one did that around that time..slept once or twice through the night and then didn't do it for awhile..I can't really remember but I think he was 6 months or so..good luck!

3. My son was 4 months old before he started sleeping through.

4. Lucky!! My daughter is 11 weeks old and I cant wait till she sleeps more than 4 hour stretches.

5. My first born - not for over 6 months.

Second born - first night in hospital and ever since. Getting him to sleep was the problem - night owl.

6. I mixed a small amount of Gerber rice cereal with his formula at 9 weeks and gave that to him at night. My slept through the night from then on.

7. My daughter is 11 1/2 weeks old. She sleeps through the night, but wakes up to feed in the middle of the night a few times a week. She has been sleeping through the night for 2 weeks now.

8. my son was about 6 months my daughter was three years old and she used to get up 15 times a night sometimes more ..

9. very few babies, keep doing it once they have done it once. my daughter did from1.5 to 3mos then at 4mos i moved her onto solids, even now she sleeps through most nights but not all. i try to cut out her tea time nap and feed her slids before bed and she usually sleeps longer

10. My daughter slept through the night from 2.5 months old. My son is now sleeping through the night at 4 months old. We have an occasional hiccup, though.

RSV has put a minor hump in our sleeping thru the night routine.

11. My first baby started to do four to six hour stretches at six weeks old. Not every night, but often enough to give me relief.

My second one was almost two before she started sleeping more than two or three hours without waking.

So keep your fingers crossed, it looks like you are lucky this time!

12. My son is almost 2 and hasn't slept through a night yet. Since he was born, he is psycho about dirty diapers. He will start crying before he's even done peeing to signal a diaper change. This prevents him (and us) from sleeping all the way through the night. Someday :)

13. 2 weeks old and has always slept through the night.

14. That's about three months. Around that time, yes they do sleep longer for a few nights, but then it gets worse again. But then, it gets better, and after that, it gets a lot better. My baby did the same thing. Around four months though, I was sleeping 7 1/2 to 8 hours a night. Now that she's five months, I sleep all I want to, and she sleeps about nine or ten hours. Of course, my baby is a big one, so she can. Breast feeding is best for putting on the right kind of fat.

I notice that during the day, when she was younger, if she didn't sleep well because of colic, then she would sleep long stretches at night at a time. Also, discouraging evening naps helps too, I think. I hope this helps, blessings.

15. Unfortunately babies are unpredictable. My first baby slept through the night from when she was born. The first couple of days after I brought her home I would wake her up during the night so she could eat every 3 hours. One of my friends asked me why I was doing that because if she was hungry she would certainly wake me up. I stopped immediately. My second is still getting me up through the night and he is three. The first time he sleeps through the night I will probably wake him up to make sure he is okay.

16. My girls were all different (I have three) Jade slept through (save waking for feeds) from day one, Emma was about 4 months and Lucy stills gets up about once a week (she is 2)
There is, I'm afraid no real age and once you have established a routine then in comes teething and then weening etc. and this can all disrupt a babies routine.
Stick to a good bedtime routine, make sure the house is light and noisy during the day, even through naptimes (obviously not too loud!!) and dark and quiet at night and put her to bed after a bath at the same time every night. Also make sure that she is not napping too late which might interupt her night sleep.
Other than that there is not much you can do but keep up the good work, she will settle soon.

17. I am not going to make myself popular by telling you this but my daughter at five weeks and my son at two weeks.

In the case of my daughter, she was born at 8lbs 12oz and I read an article that said they didn't need a night feed when they weighted 9lbs. She was obviously over 9lbs at 5 weeks, so I decided to give her water in the night. She had water for two nights and then never woke up for a night feed again.

My son just never woke up for a feed after 2 weeks old. He was a sleepy child all his life and he is 31 now and still prefers sleeping to anything else in life.

18. My daughter has a little girl born Oct.22 and she is sleeping through the night and has been for three weeks. Two of my four girls were by then and the other two quite a bit after that. They're all different but I would think if your baby already has a few times that before long she will be all the time.

19. Our daughter first slept 8 hours at 2 months old. That was great, it didn't happen all the time though. By the time she was 4 months old, it started to happen regulary. But when I started back at work when she was 6 months old, it all stopped. I don't know if it was the upset of mommy going to work or if it coincided with her starting to need solids, but since then she hasn't had a regular week of sleeping through the night. Last night she slept from 10:00 to 8:00, but the night before she woke up 3 times. Good luck. I wish there was a trick to get them to sleep through the night, but what works one night doesn't work the next.

20. My last one was 6 months, oh well I say.

But still gets up a lot of nights.

21. My daughter was 9 weeks old. She started out with a straight 6 hours of sleep, from 10pm-4am, then got up to a full 12 hours a night. When she is ready, it will happen.

22. My son is 5 1/2 months and has just started sleeping through. I read somewhere that our idea of sleeping through the night is 11pm-7am. But a babies idea of sleeping through is struggling to get 5 hours between 12midnight and 6am.

23. my daughter was 3 days old

24. i'm never sure what people mean when they ask this. does waking for food count? my daughter has slept 5-6 hours at a clip since about 3 months. right now, at almost 9 months, that looks like this: 7:30, bedtime. 12:30, bottle. 4 am, bottle. 5:30, wake for good. on paper, that is sleeping through the night. in reality, it still means little sleep for me! :)

25. My daughter started sleeping through the night at 2.5 months; she's currently 4.5 months. But it differs for all babies.

26. my son was 1 month when he started sleeping through the night.....by the way...don't mix baby cereal with the milk until ur baby is older....

27. All mine slept through the night from 6 weeks , but im just really really lucky!
Im sure ur baby will be soon as shes shown thats shes able.
good luck
x

28. My daughter slept through from about 2 weeks old.
I'm sure that yours will start to settle soon :)
Maybe if you increase her bedtime feed a little, it will see her through till the morning, I'm not saying it will work, but it's worth a go :)

Take care, Lulu x

29. Hi. My son didn't start sleeping through the night properly till he was 6 months old. Hang on in there, with a good consistant bedtime routine and lots of patience your daughter will sleep through. Its not normal for such young babies to sleep right through the night, every night, they are programmed to wake up and need feeding etc.

Good luck xxxxx

30. My daughter started sleeping through at 5 weeks old. She goes down at about 10pm and wakes up at about 7.30am.
I got a bedtime routine going quite early on and she has about 20 minutes naked kicking time on my bed, followed by a massage, bottle then bed. She usually falls fast asleep halfway through her bottle lol!

31. 2 weeks!! :-) LOL! We're so lucky!!!

32. I have 2 suggestions: (1) Have you tried putting her to sleep on her stomach? (2) Have you had her checked for sleep apnea?

Back sleep (aka supine sleep) is associated with social skills delays at 6 months, motor skills delays at 6 months, deformational plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome), torticollis (tightening of neck muscles), decreased sleep duration, increase sleep awakenings, increase episodes of sleep apnea (lack of oxygen), shoulder retraction, and temperomandibular jaw disorder. Stomach sleep has none of those negative effects and also helps prevent hip subluxation, increases sleep duration by 8% to 16%, decreases awakenings by 40%, decreases infant screaming episodes, and lessens colic. The SIDS prevention "Back to Sleep" campaign statistics are misleading, overstated, and not even applicable to 99% of babies. Before 1993 over 70% of American babies slept on their stomachs, 13% slept on their backs, and the rest slept on their sides. Since 1993 there has been a 500% increase in plagiocephaly as well as a huge increase in developmental delays and disorders. If a parent decides to put their infant to sleep on their stomach they should watch them first or have the baby sleep on it's own stomach on the parents chest to see that the infant is ok. Sorry for writing so much. Good Luck.

“Since the implementation of the "Back to Sleep" campaign, therapists are seeing increasing numbers of kindergarten-aged children who are unable to hold a pencil.”
Susan Syron, Pediatric Physical Therapist

“There are indications of a rapidly growing population of infants who show developmental abnormalities as a result of prolonged exposure to the supine position.”
Dr. Ralph Pelligra regarding the impact of the Back to Sleep Campaign

Dr. John Kattwinkel is in charge of advocating the Back to Sleep Campaign and will tolerate no criticism of it whatsoever. Unfortunately, I think he is biased because of his own personal tragedy.

"Why should she be a beautiful, healthy-looking girl and be dead two days later?"
Dr. John Kattwinkel on the death of his 3 day old baby daughter in 1966

"The Academy was looking for someone who didn't have an agenda. So they chose me."
Dr. John Kattwinkel on being chosen to head the 1992 American Academy on Pediatrics Task Force on SIDS Prevention

“A reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign” by Ralph Pelligra, et al.
http://cgi.thescientificworld.co.uk/cgi-bin/processHtml.pl?Id=2005.03.71.html&format=Dreamweaver

“The flip side of the ‘Back to Sleep’ Campaign” by Stevens
http://www.oandp.com/edge/issues/articles/2006-12_02.asp

Supine and Prone Infant Positioning: A Winning Combination by Wilson
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1595182

"Federal records show a dramatic decline in reported cases of SIDS, dropping from 4,895 cases in 1992 to only 2,247 in 2004, the most recent year for which complete data is available. The records reviewed by Scripps showed that cases of SIDS virtually disappeared in some states and cities over the last several years, but closer examination of the data makes it evident that thousands of those lives have not been ‘saved,’ but rather lost under another name. Coroners and medical examiners said SIDS was responsible for nearly 80 percent of all sudden infant deaths 15 years ago and only 55 percent in 2004. What increased during this time were diagnoses that CDC statisticians labeled as "threats to breathing" and ‘other ill-defined causes of mortality.’"
Bowman and Hargrove, Scripps Howard News Service